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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.
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The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.
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You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place.
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The single best thing about Mars is the reduced gravity. It's 38 percent of Earth's gravity - about one third. Almost never have you seen that portrayed in film or television. Mars is just portrayed as a place that's got reddish sand but is otherwise pretty much identical to the Mojave Desert, and that's not the case.
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The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists.
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I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.
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I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.
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Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I've actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles.
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Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.
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If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited.
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